Police Brutality / Individual record
Byron Herbert
Byron Herbert, 29, was shot and killed by Elizabethtown, Kentucky police on March 29, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-140
- Incident date
- March 29, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Elizabethtown, KY
- Agency
- Elizabethtown Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Police-killings records identify Byron Herbert as a 29-year-old Black man killed by an Elizabethtown police officer on March 29, 2015 near Towne Drive. The compiled record classifies the incident as involving a knife; that classification does not establish what Herbert did with it, whether other people were threatened, or if officers attempted to defuse the encounter. Case-specific reporting was not sufficiently corroborated in this pass to construct a more detailed chronology. Further research is needed into the department's use-of-force review, Hardin County prosecutor records and Herbert's family and community testimony. The lack of a detailed published account should not turn a victim into a statistical placeholder or permit unwarranted assertions of a justified shooting.
Investigation & findings
Fatal shooting documented in police-killings data; final investigative or civil outcome not independently verified.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 252
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1
Last reviewed: October 25, 2026
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset